Benvue and its subsidiaries (Ayomilah, GIRO, Rethinking Recycling, etc.) collectively, “Benvue”, “us” or “we” understand that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data, which is any information that is capable of identifying you as an individual person.

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) sets out the personal information practices for Benvue, including www.Benvue.org  (collectively, the “Sites”). These practices seek to balance an individual’s right to the privacy of his or her personal information and the need for Benvue to collect, use, disclose, retain and otherwise manage the personal information provided through the use of the Sites and information submitted to Benvue’s  for various services offered by us. We may update this Policy from time to time. publish an updated version of the Policy on the Sites. You are responsible for reviewing the most current version of the Policy. This Policy was last amended on the date shown at the end of the Policy. By continuing to use the Sites, you accept any updates to this Policy.

What is Personal Information?

Personal information is any information that can be used to identify you as an individual, including your name, address, credit card details, passport information, medical history and any other personally identifiable information you choose to provide to Benvue.

Children: If you are under 18, please obtain your parent or guardian’s permission before you send any personal information to Benvue, or anyone else, over the Internet. We strongly encourage parent or guardian participation and understanding of their children’s online usage and to be aware of the activities in which their children are participating.

We do not intend to collect Personal Information of visitors to the Sites who are under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you must either (a) disable cookies in your browser and use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on to disable tracking by Google Analytics. If you are under the age 13, do not reveal your age in any content you provide on our through the Site unless required by us to do so.

YOUR CONSENT

If you use the Sites or apply for or request information about products or services offered by Benvue, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure and management of your personal information in accordance with this Policy.

How Does Benvue Collect My Personal Information?

Benvue collects information from you by asking you to provide personal information such as your email address when you register to receive correspondence. For some of our other sites, as required by the technology/services provided (like chatbot or pickups), we might need to collect other information like your phone number and address as well. Certain other information may be collected on the Sites without you actively providing the information by using various technologies, as described below:

SERVER LOGS

While you use the Sites, certain information is collected without you actively providing it, including information about your IP address and type of operating system, the time you spent on the Sites and which pages you visited. This helps us improve our Sites. This data is not used to identify individuals. We track IP addresses for: (i) troubleshooting issues e.g.: application crashes; and (ii) for all people who are filling out online forms for the purpose of spam filtering.

DEMOGRAPHIC AND INTEREST REPORTING

We have implemented Google Analytics features based on Display Advertising (Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting) that allows for the collection of non-personally identifiable aggregated user data; this includes aggregated gender, age, and interest behaviour data. We will use the data provided by Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting to develop the site and content around our users’ interests. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings. In addition, you can use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on to disable tracking by Google Analytics.